One of the original Rosie the Riveter, the group of people who worked in the factories during World War II is serving her country again by making masks for coronavirus. Mae Krier, 94, worked in a Boeing factory during World War II, where she helped make warplanes. Now, she’s helping fight a different battle – coronavirus.
“I always made (them) for Rosie travel,” she told CNN. “We go to Washington and places and whenever we do, they love the bandanas. And I was making a lot of them when the virus started, and I just switched over from bandanas to face masks.”
The famous Rosie the Riveter poster from the World war II period is depicted wearing a red Polka Dot bandana around her head. This 94-year-old woman is making face masks using that same red Polka Dot material. She says that she has gotten more than a thousand requests now.
She told the CNN that what is keeping her going is her campaign for passing the Senate Bill 892 which would award ‘Rosie the Riveter’ with a single Congressional gold medal in an effort to recognise the contributions made by women workers and volunteers during World War II. This medal would then be displayed in the National Museum of American History. She says that she is hoping to change this bill into a law, which does not have enough support to pass currently.